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More than a feeling: Expressive style influences cortical speech tracking in subjective cognitive decline
Matthew King-Hang Ma, Manson Cheuk-Man Fong, Yun Feng, Cloris Pui-Hang Li, William Shiyuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21277

More than a feeling: Expressive style influences cortical speech tracking in subjective cognitive decline
Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) approximately doubles the risk of progressing to MCI and dementia. The present study investigates how one's subjective concerns of his/her own cognition are manifested in the neural dynamics during speech perception. EEG was collected from 56 Cantonese, cognitively normal older adults (aged 60 - 70) while they listened to stimuli of four expressive styles that varied in prosody: scrambled, descriptive, dialogue, and exciting. Using encoding models to predict E…

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Xiao Mao, Albert H. Schrotenboer, Guohua Wu, Willem van Jaarsveld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17870

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Problem definition: For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), high-tech maintenance is a strategic component in after-sales services, involving close coordination between customers and service engineers. Each customer suggests several time slots for their maintenance task, from which the OEM must select one. This decision needs to be made promptly to support customers' planning. At the end of each day, routes for service engineers are planned to fulfill the tasks scheduled for the following …

Manufacturing employment has been falling since April,
and job growth is slower than it was between January 2024 and August 2024.
The timing of the manufacturing declines corresponds with the Trump administration’s disastrous tariff policies,
which are projected to cost American households $2,400 annually.
Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in April 2025,
overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000,
while job openings and hires have fall…

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The #UFL is changing for the 2026 Seasons.
The following teams are leaving:
* Memphis Showboats
* Michigan Panthers
* San Antonio Brahmas
And the following teams are joining:
* Columbus Aviators
* Louisville Kings
* Orlando Storm
And there are some name changes to existing teams:
* Houston Roughnecks become the Houston Gamblers
* Arlington Renega…

UK economy saw zero growth in July
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203edl1zq3o
"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to n…

UK economy saw zero growth in July
The economy failed to grow following the biggest contraction in manufacturing output for a year.

A Goal-Oriented Approach for Active Object Detection with Exploration-Exploitation Balance
Yalei Yu, Matthew Coombes, Wen-Hua Chen, Cong Sun, Myles Flanagan, Jingjing Jiang, Pramod Pashupathy, Masoud Sotoodeh-Bahraini, Peter Kinnell, Niels Lohse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11467

A Goal-Oriented Approach for Active Object Detection with Exploration-Exploitation Balance
Active object detection, which aims to identify objects of interest through controlled camera movements, plays a pivotal role in real-world visual perception for autonomous robotic applications, such as manufacturing tasks (e.g., assembly operations) performed in unknown environments. A dual control for exploration and exploitation (DCEE) algorithm is presented within goal-oriented control systems to achieve efficient active object detection, leveraging active learning by incorporating variance…

In-situ Radiation Damage Study of Silicon Carbide Detectors Subjected to Clinical Proton Beams
Daniel Radmanovac, Andreas Gsponer, Simon Waid, Sebastian Onder, Matthias Knopf, J\"urgen Burin, Stefan Gundacker, Thomas Bergauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11304

In-situ Radiation Damage Study of Silicon Carbide Detectors Subjected to Clinical Proton Beams
Silicon carbide (SiC) planar PiN diodes from two different manufacturers were irradiated with 252.7 MeV protons from a medical synchrotron. Over the course of two 8h irradiation shifts, the samples were exposed to increasing fluences ranging from 1.4e+11 to 3.5e+13 p+/cm^2. Electrical characterizations, including IV and CV measurements, were performed both before and after irradiation using probe stations, and for selected samples even in-situ between fluence steps directly at the irradiation f…

Sandwich Construction of Symmetry TFTs for the Centre Symmetries of Chern-Simons, Yang-Mills, and Einstein Gravity
Leron Borsten, Dimitri Kanakaris, Hyungrok Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08819

Sandwich Construction of Symmetry TFTs for the Centre Symmetries of Chern-Simons, Yang-Mills, and Einstein Gravity
We construct symmetry topological field theories (SymTFTs) using the sandwich construction of Pulmann-Ševera-Valach that manifest the centre symmetries of Chern-Simons theory and Yang-Mills theory as well as general relativity in the MacDowell-Mansouri formulation. The 'filling' of the sandwich is an AKSZ sigma model whose target space is a Weil algebra, augmented with discrete degrees of freedom given by a choice of topological boundary condition.

Large phonon-drag thermopower polarity reversal in Ba-doped KTaO3
Mohamed Nawwar, Samuel Poage, Tobias Schwaigert, Maria N. Gastiasoro, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Darrell G. Schlom, Kaveh Ahadi, Brandi L. Wooten, Joseph P. Heremans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00313

Large phonon-drag thermopower polarity reversal in Ba-doped KTaO3
This study reports the observation of phonon-drag thermopower polarity reversal in Ba-doped KTaO3 thin films, mediated by electron-phonon Umklapp scattering. Epitaxial films with distinct carrier concentrations (3.7 x 10^20 cm^-3 and 4.9 x 10^19 cm^-3) were grown via molecular-beam epitaxy. In heavily doped samples, where the Fermi surface spans 80% of the Brillouin zone, the Umklapp condition is satisfied, reversing electron momentum. This manifests as a sign-reversal in the thermopower around…